Safety

While road traffic injuries represent the leading cause in worldwide injury-related deaths,^[18] their popularity undermines this statistic.

Result of a serious automo Mary Ward became one of the first documented automobile fatalities in 1869 in Parsonstown, Ireland^[19] and Henry Bliss one of the United States' first pedestrian automobile casualties in 1899 in New York.^[20] There are now standard tests for safety in new automobiles, like the EuroNCAP and the US NCAP tests,^[21] as well as insurance-backed IIHS tests